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think about what really matters
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98% of the world’s people are spending 98% of their time on things that don’t matter.
– Neale Donald Walsh
the ‘pour-out-your’ bucket list
The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone,
but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.
– Kalu Kalu
Ann Voskamp’s writes on her blog yesterday over at A Holy Experience was her thoughts on Bucket Lists –
I’ve never had a bucket list, and I’m thinking that I don’t want a bucket list as much as I want a poured bucket list. I’m thinking:
The best lives don’t have Bucket Lists as much as they have Empty Bucket lists.
Because the thing is when I kick the bucket, I don’t want there to be anything left in my bucket. When I kick the bucket, I want the bucket right empty.
I don’t want my life to be how I took experiences — but that I gave exceedingly.
That I gave every last drop, that I poured it all out, that I held nothing back. Because the way to really live is not to try to fill your life up — but to spill your life out.
“Where do you want to go?” the editor urges.
“What do you want to see — and, most important, with whom? Then just do it! Figure out a way to make it happen, and 20 years from now, you will not be disappointed. As we have the opportunity to check items off the list, not only are we given fantastic stories to share, but we also gain memories that will last a lifetime.”
This is what has changed me: writing thanks down on the list — and who can hoard their life when they see the abundance of His grace?
I hold the magazine in both hands and it’s unexpected — how wild I feel to rewrite this whole thing:
The question is really is not what you want to see — but who do you want to serve — and yes, most importantly, for Whom. Then do that!
read the full post at http://www.aholyexperience.com/2012/08/best-bucket-list/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+HolyExperience+%28Holy+Experience%29
I concur!
The secret to life is to begin living with thankfulness for a glimpse of grace – and then finding that EVERYTHING is grace!
How then can we not pour out our lives for this gift, this love beyond our human comprehension, we have been so richly and freely given?
I want to live to be 100!
This is actually a surprise to me. I have been so busy surviving over the past 47 years, I haven’t really faced the truth of how long I want to live. In fact, I don’t think I meant to, but in the back of somewhere, I don’t think I believed I was going to live a long and happy life.
I have just tried to live thankfully in each moment, but I haven’t looked ahead.
Last night, reading Love, Medicine & Miracles, by Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, I faced that surprising fact, and made the decision! Yes! I want to live to be 100!
I want the next 53 good and happy years to connect with community and live all the lessons I have learned through these hard years. I want to love my children and (coming sometime) grandchildren! I want life!!! haha It makes me giddy just to write it and read it back to myself! Lalala! I want to
So, once again, I think about how I need to do that! I know I need to eat healthier, drink more water and EXERCISE!!!! I must take care of my body and treat it with respect and honor if it is going to be my home for the next 53 years! It is interesting how differently I am already thinking this morning, having realized this choice! So exciting!
http://him.uk.msn.com/health-and-fitness/surprising-tips-for-living-to-100
new every morning
Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you
can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ve’ done something.
You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that
attachment. Today is a new day!
– Steve Maraboli
an amazing day
This is my living faith, an 
active faith, a faith of verbs:
To questions, explore, experiment, experience, walk, run,
dance, play, eat, love, learn, dare, taste, touch, smell,
listen, speak, write, read, draw, provoke, emote, scream, sin,
repent, cry, kneel, pray, bow, rise, stand, look, laugh,
cajole, create, confront, confound, walk back, walk forward, circle, hide and seek.
– Terry Tempest Williams
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To John and Dara
It’s not just that you found me
at the foot of the cross
But that you reached out and
joined me there
with Christ
All one
It’s not just that you met my real physical need
You left me with so much more than dollars
You bound my wounds with your prayers
and You became my neighbor
All One
It’s not just that you took the time to ask why I cried
You made my heart glad and dried my tears
with the balm of your truth
You bound us together
with your understanding and your vulnerabilities
All one
It’s not that we spoke
but that you spoke to me first
You took the initiative
to reach out
to dare
to ask
to enter into community
to live dangerously
to get messy and personal
with me
All one
It’s so much more than
just a few moments of time that you have given me
You have given me a most precious gift
Yourselves
Our spirits
poured out
connected
together
All one
at the foot of the cross
how we change the way we look at life
New newsletter over at Songs from the Valley about Perceptions. I believe it is possible to change the way we look at ourselves, others and even the world around us, but it takes learning how!
Great article by my friend, and amazing author, Ocean Palmer http://oceanpalmer.com/ featured artwork by Daniel Brooks Grove http://danielbrooksgrove.com
www.songsfromthevalley.com then click on the picture!
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